This article concerns itself with the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management behaviour within companies. The basis of the empirical analysis is 41 expert interviews conducted in 2006 as well as information available from a standardised survey of 750 personnel managers which was...

Arbeitsrecht und Beschäftigung stehen in einem engen Zusammenhang. Eine Unternehmensbefragung des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln unterstreicht, dass eine Modernisierung des deutschen Arbeitsrechts einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Beseitigung von Einstellungsbarrieren und zur Verbesserung...

Seit Dänemark es geschafft hat, seine Arbeitslosenquote mehr als zu halbieren, gilt sein System der „flexicurity“ als vorbildlich. Dabei steht „flexicurity“ für eine Kombination von vergleichsweise geringem Kündigungsschutz und einer im internationalen Vergleich großzügigen...

This study analyses the extent and determinants of temporary employment in Switzerland and performs an evaluation of these contracts using data from the first three waves of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), i.e. for the years 1999 to 2001. It is shown that temporary employment is most common...

German employment protection legislation has recently come under criticism. Some complain that the employment protection legislation no longer protects the employment relationship against the arbitrary termination by the employer. Others emphasize that dismissal protection restricts firms'...

This paper discusses free immigration to regulated labour markets (as in Europe) and to unregulated labour markets (as in the US), and explores the implications for migration flows of collective agreements, employment protection laws, product market regulations etc. It is argued that the...

Against the background of the current endeavours to relax dismissal protection legislation while simultaneously eliminating the possibility of using fixed-term employment contracts without justifiable reason, this paper outlines the distinctive features of these two areas of individual labour...

Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

This paper aims at analyzing the astonishingly mild response of the German labor market to the severe demand shock that occurred in the aftermath of the financial crisis. It stresses the role of institutions such as working-time accounts which create a large scope for a buffering capacity within...